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get all over the back and tax them and. they're businesses most the lobbying is deep that's keeping the government from doing things to industries and to companies and likely going to help them avoid to the exact day or night when i got presented in a bunch of indian tribes and the way i got into it the first representation i had with the tribes was to stop the federal government from putting a thirty percent tax over the gross revenues of their gambling industry what was interesting about your case it was not just politicians who cheated but also you cheated your clients namely those indian tribes with gambling interests who paid them aliens and got what i thought was what i did was where we're about to pled guilty to was some of the efforts that we did for the clients in their states worst to stop their competition from taking away their markets they would crush their competition yes we would attack their competition and we would do everything we could to keep them from invading the market of our client and that's normal
get all over the back and tax them and. they're businesses most the lobbying is deep that's keeping the government from doing things to industries and to companies and likely going to help them avoid to the exact day or night when i got presented in a bunch of indian tribes and the way i got into it the first representation i had with the tribes was to stop the federal government from putting a thirty percent tax over the gross revenues of their gambling industry what was interesting about your...
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it since most recently everybody's been asking about asking him about when he's going to release his tax forms but since he's been dodging that one very well by the way he decided to take a moment to bash newt gingrich last night when it comes to the history of congress which you listen to in my view and the speaker's rendition of history going back to nine hundred seventy this involving a washington is in my view a perfect example of why we need to send to washington someone who has not lived in washington but some others live in the real streets of america. lived in the real streets of america without the wall street maybe some beautiful street a gated community i think that we all know that you are the furthest thing from a real american that one could define it just because you worked in the private sector doesn't mean you know anything about what it's like to be an average american being born into political royalty making millions working at a venture capital firm bain capital doesn't make you understand the experience as americans neither do huge and i'm talking huge houses in utah
it since most recently everybody's been asking about asking him about when he's going to release his tax forms but since he's been dodging that one very well by the way he decided to take a moment to bash newt gingrich last night when it comes to the history of congress which you listen to in my view and the speaker's rendition of history going back to nine hundred seventy this involving a washington is in my view a perfect example of why we need to send to washington someone who has not lived...
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been demanding that the president and government step down this against a backdrop of wage cuts and tax hikes in the e.u. second poorest countries struggling to meet the demands of its international creditors artie's tom barton has the latest from bucharest. night and day they come to scream that defiance by saying austerity and the feeling the government isn't listening have spilled over into anger even violence. our youth has no future they have no jobs. mostly water is sixty she's worked all her life in a textile factory in broker rest but now she is forced to pay for social security out of her small pension. they need to give us a fair pension and not tell us they're borrowing the money because they don't have . a water is not just a self has some left yes but it's a need to try and find work young rumanians feel trapped and directing most of the president try and. protest as accuse him of trampling over democracy and presiding over a political elite riddled with. long steep descent down down with disaster parents left us with a heritage and we're losing our children with just debt
been demanding that the president and government step down this against a backdrop of wage cuts and tax hikes in the e.u. second poorest countries struggling to meet the demands of its international creditors artie's tom barton has the latest from bucharest. night and day they come to scream that defiance by saying austerity and the feeling the government isn't listening have spilled over into anger even violence. our youth has no future they have no jobs. mostly water is sixty she's worked all...
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but is the mitt model giving capitalism a bad name a millionaire with a fifteen percent tax rate the kind of capitalism causing people to equate it with inequality what about the people fighting for capitalism and true chance at the ones not on that stage just trying to work hard and get ahead we'll talk about them also mega upload the f.b.i. shut it down yesterday one of the world's largest file sharing sites they allege copyright violations now the u.s. worked with other jurisdictions to make arrests and oversee raids around the globe one hundred fifty million use this site to upload files mega uploads lawyers say the site was shut down with no notice and no opportunity to challenge it we asked what you thought will tell you what you said let's get to days capital account. all right we all know the u.s. is heading into primaries in south carolina and we saw another republican debate just last night lots of talk about taxes and the economy but only one candidate is saying this the fact that we are the issuer of the reserve currency of the world is a real. blessing for us because it'
but is the mitt model giving capitalism a bad name a millionaire with a fifteen percent tax rate the kind of capitalism causing people to equate it with inequality what about the people fighting for capitalism and true chance at the ones not on that stage just trying to work hard and get ahead we'll talk about them also mega upload the f.b.i. shut it down yesterday one of the world's largest file sharing sites they allege copyright violations now the u.s. worked with other jurisdictions to make...
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growth are lowest at the current thirty five percent tax rate and highest at an eighty percent top tax rate in fact if you look at the statistics for the last hundred years those times the g.d.p. has grown fastest and job creation and growing fastest have been the times when the top tax rate was above fifty percent and those years that had grown most slowly have been when the top tax rate is below fifty percent you know they have an expression for that in texas and say they say that dog won't hunt but it's true again those numbers. for the action zero zero zero for the economy in the fifty's sixty's seventy's and early eighty's even the rate the so-called reagan recovery in eighty four the top tax rate was fifty percent eighty four. fiscal responsibility and it is strict adherence to generally accepted accounting principles whereas now you have spendthrift politicians a spendthrift administration of various strains that we know are breaking the bank and we look the other way because that's unpopular that's how i would explain it you know the average person likes to believe they're gett
growth are lowest at the current thirty five percent tax rate and highest at an eighty percent top tax rate in fact if you look at the statistics for the last hundred years those times the g.d.p. has grown fastest and job creation and growing fastest have been the times when the top tax rate was above fifty percent and those years that had grown most slowly have been when the top tax rate is below fifty percent you know they have an expression for that in texas and say they say that dog won't...
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they cut corporate taxes some of them cut taxes on the wealthy they're doing these things then you throw in some of these really invasive anti-woman laws these ultrasound laws that somebody has to pay for these voter id regulations that somebody has to pay for and they're actually increasing the size of government and the control of government and those two fronts and then they're cutting people who you know needed this paycheck to continue to spend money make a living pay rent to pay the bills. and so what you're getting is a worse economy in the states which really should have been pretty obvious i want to kind of round this all out with something interesting that is i mean you said that the occupy movement would not have happened if it weren't for wisconsin it certainly seems that so many of the issues fought for are very much on the same page we talk about the one percent versus the ninety nine percent the plight of the public sector workers on one hand we just found out about the c.e.o. of bank of america brian moynihan was paid point five million dollars last year that's six times
they cut corporate taxes some of them cut taxes on the wealthy they're doing these things then you throw in some of these really invasive anti-woman laws these ultrasound laws that somebody has to pay for these voter id regulations that somebody has to pay for and they're actually increasing the size of government and the control of government and those two fronts and then they're cutting people who you know needed this paycheck to continue to spend money make a living pay rent to pay the...
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i would only add that to opening segment show disconcerting response he had to guess that taxes were going to be asked of if you can't run for president not be asked that question whatever answer he gives i would have thought there would have been two things going through very one was that was that was a new game which is it was contrite he knew that question was going to be answered he had rehearsed it he had it ready and he delivered it like a pro romney i don't know what they were to how they prepped him because he knew that that question should have been answered and you know newt gingrich. beating to the punch that's why he released his tax return is coming across like the kid who got caught with him in the cookie jar it's incredible more rumble after the break how can republicans compete with president obama's singing tell us. wealthy british style. that's what i like. markets why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cons or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our. back to. horace cooper
i would only add that to opening segment show disconcerting response he had to guess that taxes were going to be asked of if you can't run for president not be asked that question whatever answer he gives i would have thought there would have been two things going through very one was that was that was a new game which is it was contrite he knew that question was going to be answered he had rehearsed it he had it ready and he delivered it like a pro romney i don't know what they were to how...
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later even though he's a conservative french president nicolas sarkozy is pushing for a robin hood tax cuts and fury aid in the banks there's explain what a robin hood tax is incentives really take why the u.s. must adopt one of its own. you need to know this today we will don't just memorialize a revolutionary civil rights icon we recognize a revolutionary moral leader a man who not only fought for equality among races but also fought for equality among economic classes and fought for peace around the world it's been more than forty four years stock to martin luther king jr was gunned down in memphis hotel balcony and in those forty four years reverend dr king's legacy as a civil rights leader has endured today his name will be mentioned in homes across america in newspapers and on television he'll be heralded as the man who move the nation forward toward racial equality who preached progress and who laid the groundwork for the election of the nation's first african-american president three years ago barack obama and there's no question that dr king deserves this praise he did do all
later even though he's a conservative french president nicolas sarkozy is pushing for a robin hood tax cuts and fury aid in the banks there's explain what a robin hood tax is incentives really take why the u.s. must adopt one of its own. you need to know this today we will don't just memorialize a revolutionary civil rights icon we recognize a revolutionary moral leader a man who not only fought for equality among races but also fought for equality among economic classes and fought for peace...
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obama during the obama administration do not raise taxes he cut taxes i know you know conservatives like to say you are terrible but he did i mean it's true though you know it's true and. the interest has got selling so so first of all you you know you said he raised a i don't get that secondly you've had fourteen straight months of private sector job growth so he's been creating jobs if you think the president's policies everything you do it jobs and and of course you know george bush and. the jobs not one has goods you had you've had five government employees laid off he has shrunk the size of government by half a million employee. yes but he has fourteen can steady months fourteen consecutive months of private sector job growth and mitt romney did kill off a bunch of corporations and does say corporations are people so if you believe corporations are people and if you kill them you are a serious serial killer well first and foremost i think we're indulging ourselves with a little creative accounting here when you hold up the president's accomplishments they seem to be a little bi
obama during the obama administration do not raise taxes he cut taxes i know you know conservatives like to say you are terrible but he did i mean it's true though you know it's true and. the interest has got selling so so first of all you you know you said he raised a i don't get that secondly you've had fourteen straight months of private sector job growth so he's been creating jobs if you think the president's policies everything you do it jobs and and of course you know george bush and. the...
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their mortgages at lower rates and he's going to pay for this with a tax a small tax big banks banks with more than thirty million dollars thirty billion dollars in assets over congressional republicans are willing to even consider this that they say it's dead on arrival ironically the top ten congressional districts that would benefit from obama's plan are all occupied by republicans in the house of representatives. are lawmakers supposed to be representing their districts and not wall street these are the people who are saying no we're not going to do this. and i think that you know what you're really talking about here first of all this idea is preposterous on the face of it you're going to go ahead it did it and it got us out of the great depression it got homeowners homeowners you know their mortgages were failing he created the federal housing administration and it works for decades like fannie mae and freddie fannie mae fannie mae was working just fine thank you very much until lyndon johnson privatized in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight to take off the books part of th
their mortgages at lower rates and he's going to pay for this with a tax a small tax big banks banks with more than thirty million dollars thirty billion dollars in assets over congressional republicans are willing to even consider this that they say it's dead on arrival ironically the top ten congressional districts that would benefit from obama's plan are all occupied by republicans in the house of representatives. are lawmakers supposed to be representing their districts and not wall street...
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that you're in so your taxes will go up what it means for the payroll tax if that expires so that's been do remember when obama gave those speeches what would you do with forty dollars extra in your paid in your paycheck well that was when he was lobbying for the payroll tax holiday so that lowered a little bit that expires so for the average person forty bucks more taken out of their paycheck so so that's kind of what it means to you or i just in terms of taxes if we go on in terms of what this means for the economy if we do this series of things all at once which are contractionary projections are that we could go back into recession that's what the c.b.i. just recently said that next year we would go back into recession unemployment to rise to nine point one percent remind you live in your mind these are all projections by the congressional budget office is not by any means if and it and so that would be the pain felt however they also found that longer term this would actually be better for growth and better for joblessness because you are actually kind of getting a fiscal defic
that you're in so your taxes will go up what it means for the payroll tax if that expires so that's been do remember when obama gave those speeches what would you do with forty dollars extra in your paid in your paycheck well that was when he was lobbying for the payroll tax holiday so that lowered a little bit that expires so for the average person forty bucks more taken out of their paycheck so so that's kind of what it means to you or i just in terms of taxes if we go on in terms of what...
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proper classes and a lot of that has to do with underfunding especially in areas where they use property tax in order to fund education and you know in core areas you're not really going to get as much money as rich areas like let's say in beverly hills but you know a lot of this i think has to do with laziness on the administration's part in the schools and i think that what a lot of people want to deny that racism doesn't exist in this country anymore it's a problem that we've overcome and even if race racism isn't as overt as it was decades ago there are other ways that people participate in racist behavior and this is a perfect example of that we don't when you look at the numbers the numbers don't lie the proof is in the plenty eighteen percent of these students are african-american but huge majority of them get thrown into juvenile detention centers for minor offenses it's ridiculous can also keep in mind look if we have the type of juvenile detention centers or prisons jails in this country that work that actually rehabilitated people then maybe maybe you can have an argument but the
proper classes and a lot of that has to do with underfunding especially in areas where they use property tax in order to fund education and you know in core areas you're not really going to get as much money as rich areas like let's say in beverly hills but you know a lot of this i think has to do with laziness on the administration's part in the schools and i think that what a lot of people want to deny that racism doesn't exist in this country anymore it's a problem that we've overcome and...
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where there is a tax to be going on but very different. who knows maybe let's leave it there because this story i really want to get to cartels like opec make news but here is one you would never expect. billion dollars of maple syrup over twenty million dollars worth of maple syrup was stolen from canada strategic reserves and back last summer. did you catch that yeah she's talking about this maple syrup reserves of course it is strategic reserves of maple syrup well they do you want to know why because this actually is a legit cartel so can it actually does control most of the market for maple syrup so in order to influence the price so that it doesn't get too low they actually hoard the syrup that gets it to the price that they would want to be and so it's a cartel and from within like eighty million dollars worth of. would be the knowledge of like a an energy crisis in the u.s. where like you make the top the strategic reserves yes well yes i don't like what you have a spike in maple syrup again aren't going to understand. what they're
where there is a tax to be going on but very different. who knows maybe let's leave it there because this story i really want to get to cartels like opec make news but here is one you would never expect. billion dollars of maple syrup over twenty million dollars worth of maple syrup was stolen from canada strategic reserves and back last summer. did you catch that yeah she's talking about this maple syrup reserves of course it is strategic reserves of maple syrup well they do you want to know...
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news discovered whether he uses tax loopholes available only to the super rich tax lawyers not tell a.b.c. news that companies like bain set up their accounts here in the caymans and other tax havens primarily to attract foreign investors who want to invest in u.s. companies without having to pay us taxes that's great for bain and for the foreign investors but not so great for the u.s. treasury and american taxpayers american taxpayers who vote so romney uses our roads and bridges uses our police officers he uses our education system is protected by our military but he doesn't think he needs to pay for all that stuff least pay his fair share of it in taxes joining me now is sam seeder host of the majority report co-host of the ring of fire radio and rebecca wilkins senior counsel on federal tax policy at the institute of taxation and economic policy was citizens for tax justice we're back and sam glad to have you both with the saying let me start out rebecca with you as a tack a tax expert can you explain exactly what romney's doing down in the caymans and i understand some of this has to
news discovered whether he uses tax loopholes available only to the super rich tax lawyers not tell a.b.c. news that companies like bain set up their accounts here in the caymans and other tax havens primarily to attract foreign investors who want to invest in u.s. companies without having to pay us taxes that's great for bain and for the foreign investors but not so great for the u.s. treasury and american taxpayers american taxpayers who vote so romney uses our roads and bridges uses our...
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now as a many on this changes rightly so what should be taxed. to decide that two issues then they might find a way how to take that plan for privatization. there is an example in the world which is a british production back to one thousand. nine hundred eighty six. labor's came to power in one thousand nine hundred seven they decided to tax the privatization but that they had a very. clear judgment of the fair price is worse is not fair prices those private companies who's been floating their prices went up immediately up to fifteen hundred percent those they only tax those and the price was being privatized by the way for taishan on the stock exchange and for them it was easy to compare their real price rises the original one and they takes it in russia i think it's going to be one of the key issue to understand what was the real price why that were the real price because in reality there was no market time right before and this were not allowed to participate in the privatization and that's very difficult to understand the market in order to c
now as a many on this changes rightly so what should be taxed. to decide that two issues then they might find a way how to take that plan for privatization. there is an example in the world which is a british production back to one thousand. nine hundred eighty six. labor's came to power in one thousand nine hundred seven they decided to tax the privatization but that they had a very. clear judgment of the fair price is worse is not fair prices those private companies who's been floating their...
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tax havens that's that's that's substantial gingrich's why if vs romney's tax dodging sandwich is going to be more damaging to these candidates you know i think in the long run the thing that's going to be really damaging to gingrich is that he has no real operation in terms of a campaign he's really he's not it was a book tour it was a book tour accidentally because it sort of blew up into something but the fact is that you need to sort of plan ahead for these things he's not on the ballot in virginia he's not going to be on the ballot in a number of states i don't think he's going to he can really do anything other than damage romney which seems to be fairly high on his agenda so. i you know i think gingrich is got a little bit of a ceiling because of the problems with is is exwife but you know redemption is a big part of the republican base is world view and i think he's going to play that card i'm now a grandpa yeah. yeah and i think i think that's going to rebecca romney's studies might return releases tax returns in april you mention that which raises the question about previous t
tax havens that's that's that's substantial gingrich's why if vs romney's tax dodging sandwich is going to be more damaging to these candidates you know i think in the long run the thing that's going to be really damaging to gingrich is that he has no real operation in terms of a campaign he's really he's not it was a book tour it was a book tour accidentally because it sort of blew up into something but the fact is that you need to sort of plan ahead for these things he's not on the ballot in...
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needs entire over home and he made clear that the rich must pay their fair share meeting taxes will go up to the top two percent who would talk with no one talked about reform just tax the rich more ok well a new study is being written about today it came out of germany and some economists found that there is a correlation between higher taxes and higher life satisfaction or subjective wellbeing from what i understand the dimitri they kind of try to weigh trying to find a way to make an income. not a factor so just generally like taxation was correlated with better wellbeing but some of the things within a study that i was reading where that the lower percentage on the lower scale of income they were happier paying taxes because they get more out of their taxes in terms of services so what it was the people in the middle lower the lower income it leaves a lot of people in the middle of the most unhappy is that what it was well it's not really broken down like that they tried to figure out a way to kind of make it unusual for those things so that wasn't a factor but then when you rea
needs entire over home and he made clear that the rich must pay their fair share meeting taxes will go up to the top two percent who would talk with no one talked about reform just tax the rich more ok well a new study is being written about today it came out of germany and some economists found that there is a correlation between higher taxes and higher life satisfaction or subjective wellbeing from what i understand the dimitri they kind of try to weigh trying to find a way to make an income....
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beautiful the taxpayer doesn't have to pay additional taxes to pay me my money comes from the company or the insurance company that hires me. their ways. but the business is profitable. led mission free cretaceous three. three. three. three three. three . the twists and turns of egypt's politics become ever more winding off the constitutional court dismisses the country's parliament lucky to bring protesters throwing back onto the streets. with deadly strings attached america's use of unmanned drones worldwide weapon is being seen more as an aerial serial killer the tool to aid anti terror ops. rushed to the syrian town of fighting it shattered by a week of bloody fighting with initial reports suggesting rebels scorched the air before abandoning it. latest news twenty four hours a day you're watching r.t. calls for an uprising are growing louder yet again in cairo egypt super. a constitutional court dissolved the country's newly elected parliament and apel the rights of mubarak's last prime minister to continue running for president joining us live from cairo by our correspondent paul
beautiful the taxpayer doesn't have to pay additional taxes to pay me my money comes from the company or the insurance company that hires me. their ways. but the business is profitable. led mission free cretaceous three. three. three. three three. three . the twists and turns of egypt's politics become ever more winding off the constitutional court dismisses the country's parliament lucky to bring protesters throwing back onto the streets. with deadly strings attached america's use of unmanned...
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the daily reckonings eric brian and joe bowman about their choices plus a german study finds paying taxes has a positive impact on a person's subjective well being no word on what the findings would bring in the west but if you are counting on taxation to make you feel like your quality of life is on the up and up state side will talk about some other economic options and the opec of maple syrup has been wrong millions of dollars worth of the hot commodity has been stolen from canada's maple syrup cartel yes cartel i said maple syrup cartel and those are not my words that's according to the new york times we'll talk about it in loose change let's get to today's capital account. in the u.s. as we watch this fiscal cliff charade it honestly sounds just so much like what we were hearing during the debt ceiling debate of two thousand and eleven when lawmakers were bickering and another ratings agency was threatening to drop the u.s. is aaa credit rating and then it of course did now that was met with much fanfare in the beginning but then not many direct consequences the dollar has strengthen
the daily reckonings eric brian and joe bowman about their choices plus a german study finds paying taxes has a positive impact on a person's subjective well being no word on what the findings would bring in the west but if you are counting on taxation to make you feel like your quality of life is on the up and up state side will talk about some other economic options and the opec of maple syrup has been wrong millions of dollars worth of the hot commodity has been stolen from canada's maple...
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the taxpayer pay additional taxes to pay me. company or the insurance company. worked out quite well their ways are archaic but the business is profitable. in the u.s. just as markets bunty hunter still have some good days ahead of them. wealthy british scientists on. the. market. can. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines two kinds of reports. egypt is gearing up for day two of the presidential election runoff but with no constitution. services in syria suspend their activities because of the escalating violence and. military ships carrying weapons and troops to the conflict country. protests across europe as the future of the single currency hangs in the balance while greeks are set for a vote that will decide if the country stays in the euro zone. and broadcasting live from our studios in central moscow this is a long top stories it is a tough decision for egyptians as the polls are set to reopen in just a few hours for the second day of voting in the country's p
the taxpayer pay additional taxes to pay me. company or the insurance company. worked out quite well their ways are archaic but the business is profitable. in the u.s. just as markets bunty hunter still have some good days ahead of them. wealthy british scientists on. the. market. can. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines two kinds of reports. egypt is gearing up for day two of the presidential...
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corporations are people my friend you can raise taxes and of course they are everything corporations are and also that it goes to people so where do you think it goes so jon huntsman today is this. of course corporations are not people. who would say such an outlandish. i can't imagine anyone running for president so it's not like that. so they wish which republican do you agree well look it's an absurd dispute actually obviously romney doesn't think that corporations have a heartbeat a and b. obviously all money that goes to a corporation that is public goes to people because they own shares and it's distributed doesn't mean that. you have just man wrongly destroyed himself in that quote he said there are people in corporations oh well that's true as coke would go to someone that a corporation is a person and we were talking about personality right. i mean this is the. one percent this is the old example of the republican establishment pitching for. a certain sense it's absolutely true that right in front of them most of them don't already have and if you know what you think is ther
corporations are people my friend you can raise taxes and of course they are everything corporations are and also that it goes to people so where do you think it goes so jon huntsman today is this. of course corporations are not people. who would say such an outlandish. i can't imagine anyone running for president so it's not like that. so they wish which republican do you agree well look it's an absurd dispute actually obviously romney doesn't think that corporations have a heartbeat a and b....
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like appeasement to me to a lot of the republicans these days and he raised the capitalist against tax you know the one that romney only pays like fifteen percent and that's it picked out a fifteen percent rate or raise that up to be identical with the ordinary wage income tax engaging in what today's republicans call class warfare. we're going to close the other part of the text of the loan some of the family will think it would be their theory. in theory some of those who were understanding that it renders they sometimes made it possible for a million years to be a bus driver was being presented itself and that's the phrase you think the billionaire or maybe more intense than the bus driver or the way. that puts reagan to the left a baracoa bottom up reagan's record has been rewritten in the last twenty plus years there's in fact there's this whole project was funded by a bunch of very wealthy people grover norquist heads it up the reagan legacy project one of their one of their explicit goals in addition to rewriting all the history about reagan or glossing over things like what you
like appeasement to me to a lot of the republicans these days and he raised the capitalist against tax you know the one that romney only pays like fifteen percent and that's it picked out a fifteen percent rate or raise that up to be identical with the ordinary wage income tax engaging in what today's republicans call class warfare. we're going to close the other part of the text of the loan some of the family will think it would be their theory. in theory some of those who were understanding...
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stood out mitt romney and newt gingrich first here's mitt romney's fumbling his response about his tax returns. i don't know how many years i'll release i'll take a look at what the. what our documents i. released multiple years i don't know how many years and and outs why doesn't he start with what his father had been his father released twelve years of president obama released six years ago and here's here's newt gingrich flipping out about the question about his ex-wife the other. i think the destructive vicious negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country harder to attract decent people to run for public office and i am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a time feeling. so i'm wondering if a democrat or for that matter a black president because we have one in the white house could get away with either hiding his money in the cayman's or asking for an open marriage it seems to me that there's a double standard just within the party as well a pledge. for. bill clinton they went after him i was all there across they went after hi
stood out mitt romney and newt gingrich first here's mitt romney's fumbling his response about his tax returns. i don't know how many years i'll release i'll take a look at what the. what our documents i. released multiple years i don't know how many years and and outs why doesn't he start with what his father had been his father released twelve years of president obama released six years ago and here's here's newt gingrich flipping out about the question about his ex-wife the other. i think...
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they're the ones or create jobs when in reality when their taxes are higher under bill clinton three times as many jobs are created the propensity to add softer terms to the english lexicon has surged over the decades particularly when it comes to military related language there's a condition in combat most people know about it it's when a fighting force is nervous system has been stressed to it's absolute peak and maximum can't take it anymore and put the nervous system has either snapped or is about to snap in the first world war that condition was called show today the same condition is known as an eight syllable hyphenated furries void of any emotion post-traumatic stress disorder the aftermath of war includes post-traumatic stress . for those of you suffering from p.t.s.d. when it comes to wars where you have the most damaging euphemisms like. saying innocent civilians were killed in a drone strike you say there was collateral damage collateral damages to me is the worst expression no it's innocent men women children are killed in the collateral damage sounds like a real estate
they're the ones or create jobs when in reality when their taxes are higher under bill clinton three times as many jobs are created the propensity to add softer terms to the english lexicon has surged over the decades particularly when it comes to military related language there's a condition in combat most people know about it it's when a fighting force is nervous system has been stressed to it's absolute peak and maximum can't take it anymore and put the nervous system has either snapped or...
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to cross out the so-called fat tax i'm joined by my guests in new york meanwhile she is the president of national action against obesity jeff steer he is a senior fellow at the national center for public policy research and donica moore she's a woman's health expert an advocate physician educator and a media commentator on cross talk rules and effect folks that means you can jump in anytime you want me i probably should lose a few pounds because of the food i eat so should that food that i eat be taxed to teach me to eat wetter better and to be have better health. well studies show if we increase costs or put about a twenty percent tax on certain foods that you will see a reduction in consumption i can't imagine someone trying to float a twenty percent tax on anything right now i see it more than a sin tax or punitive i see it more as if a company if their production results in waste or pollution then that company is responsible for those externalities i see it very much like that it's pogo view and if you make a person who says but that decision imposes a cost on others then yeah we
to cross out the so-called fat tax i'm joined by my guests in new york meanwhile she is the president of national action against obesity jeff steer he is a senior fellow at the national center for public policy research and donica moore she's a woman's health expert an advocate physician educator and a media commentator on cross talk rules and effect folks that means you can jump in anytime you want me i probably should lose a few pounds because of the food i eat so should that food that i eat...
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you know what do the corporations are paying taxes i mean how do you. know what you want to find and more about it and we don't know here it is the issue is the loopholes the issue is loopholes powerful entities go to congress and get special privileges and you're giving thirty examples of loopholes yes absolutely eliminate and you know why the laws of the same way one moment i'll finish just like obamacare which gave thirty massive exemptions to mcdonald's and all these other corporations have the same laws apply to everyone you know what made it made it possible though for those exemptions for them to buy those loopholes the fact that they're considered persons that's and therefore they yeah it's a real church that somebody is going to argue because there's an assumption i have the same with all sorts of numbers if you will to or a collective look that is there is a heartbeat this is going to this is the law doesn't run this is the legacy of the george w. bush administration that is that this is the absolute also use a learned that was the absolute re
you know what do the corporations are paying taxes i mean how do you. know what you want to find and more about it and we don't know here it is the issue is the loopholes the issue is loopholes powerful entities go to congress and get special privileges and you're giving thirty examples of loopholes yes absolutely eliminate and you know why the laws of the same way one moment i'll finish just like obamacare which gave thirty massive exemptions to mcdonald's and all these other corporations have...